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- Give their introduction
- Sashai
- She used to play basketball
- Met Tiffani in Seoul as missionary English teachers
- Really loves food
- Really likes trying something new and scary at least once a year
- Likes to try new things
- From South Africa, Cape Town
- Why did you become an English teacher and how long have you been an English teacher?
- About 8 years
- She decided that she wanted to try something new
- Always wanted to teach and started to research how to become an English teacher
- God led her to South Korea to be a missionary
- Can you tell us about your first teaching experience?
- 6:30 am, deep in the winter, and there were 13 students
- Woke up the first morning with a cold, voice was gone, and her eyes were red
- Awkward, but she went with the flow
- As a teacher, what have you noticed are the three best qualities of a good English student?
- Enthusiasm to learn
- Willingness to listen
- Being brave enough to ask and speak
- Did you ever have a favorite student? Tell us about him/her
- Any student that had the ability to connect with the lesson personally, make it their own, and then make something from it
- Students who can connect the lesson with their personalities
- What is the hardest thing about teaching English?
- Trying to help students to navigate and understand the exceptions to the rules as it relates to grammar
- Balancing grammar and speaking
- Teaching spelling
- The cultural aspects that are important in a student’s culture
- What do you enjoy most about teaching English?
- The connections she has with her students
- The relationships
- Students who become more interested in the English Bible studies
- Do you speak another language? Tell us about it. / or / If you could learn another language, what language would you learn and why?
- As a Black South African, she speaks 3 languages
- English
- Xhosa (Look up “the click song” on YouTube Miriam Makeba)
- (Comes from the Dutch) Afrikaans
- (Understands Zulu and 2 other languages)
- Speaks survival Korean
- Do you know any good English resources?
- Listen to songs on YouTube (Gospel songs)
- Listen to gospel songs because they are slow and repetitive
- Listen to good hip hop songs
- Meet a native English speaker and take them out for coffee or a meal
- Dating someone from another culture
- Advice for other 2nd language teachers, students, and teachers
- Identify an expert or a consistent role model and engage them
- Be willing to observe and then find the tools to help you understand
Thanks for this brilliant postcast interview, Tiffani. I understood a lot, more than 90% I guess. I’m no fluent yet, but I’m improving my English skills and all of your videos are helping a lot to get better day-by-day.
It was my pleasure! I’m so happy to hear that your English listening skills are improving! 🙂
OMG Tiffani, What a interesting and lovely podcast!! How nice to hear the experience you both had in Korean. Sashai, how nice to here you too. I love Cape Town. I have been there already 3 times. My first English interchange course I did in Cape Touwn for one month and then second time 3 months, I learn a lot! And now I live in The Netherlands so I speak Dutch and my third time in Cape Touwn I could understand Afrikaans and I was so happy. Thanks guys, for this lovely podcast. Tiffani, please check your email and Facebook… Read more »
Thank you so much for your message Adriane! I sent it to Sashai and she was so happy. 🙂 At this time I don’t offer one-on-one lessons because I have so many students. But, you can enroll in my “Speak English Like a Native” course. Then you will be able to also join my private community for students in the course.
i must thank you all about being inside this site. this is all i love about english for speaker to improve more and more. thanks all team
My pleasure! I’m glad you are enjoying all of the lessons.
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